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you people need to stop believing that the world evolves around you - just because Disneyland is a great entertainment park
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Dude! it was an example, metaphor, whatever you want to call it. stop being so anal.
U.S. is the biggest buy of medical equipment WORLDWIDE but yet we make up just a fraction of the world population.
The U.S. is the largest single country consumer of medical and dental equipment and supplies, with a market valued at nearly $80 billion in 2005 (including diagnostic products) and U.S. medical technology companies lead the world in medical device production.
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In 2004 the U.S. comprised roughly 45% of the pharmaceutical market worldwide, while Europe comprises about 25% (AMR Research).
I never once said i support the way the United States is handling their health care but Universal Coverage does not promote competition among hospital/medical establishment the way an unregulated (for profit) health care system does. And we all know we need competition within any business catagory in order to get better products/services.
When roughly 1/20th of the worlds population is responsible for approx 50% of the revenue made by the world medical establishment you can not sit there and say we are not responsible for most of the medical breakthrus you people living with universal coverage take for granted.